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Who me?

Sure. Knew Derek Sanderson very well. Derek Sanderson hockey cards were plentiful in my youth.

He played for the Bruins - on some very good teams as I recall. I believe he was on those early 70's Cup winners along with Espo, Orr, Brad Park, Cashman, Cheevers etc. Maybe I am slightly mixing eras there.

Anyway he famously took the money and went to the WHA. Bobby Hull was the biggest name to do that but Sanderson was still a thing.

There were drug/alcohol issue I do believe that came to light later.
 
Big ladies man from what I heard! Like Muddy stated part of the Bruin years (late 60s early 70s) where in contention for the Cup every year! Then went to the Philly Blazers for giant contract along with fellow Bruin Johnny McKenzie (player coach) but was a complete non-factor as was the team and went back to Boston!

With Orr and Esposito after winning the Cup!
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With the Blazers!
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He was at the same superstar status as Joe Namath for a period. They were best buds and opened a bar together in Boston. It was called Bachelor III. The playboy club was across the street. ATA


My favorite quote from his special:

"Nobody would leave one of our parties until all the cocaine was gone. That usually meant 2-3 days. Evil drug."

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Mudcat
Who me?

Sure. Knew Derek Sanderson very well. Derek Sanderson hockey cards were plentiful in my youth.

He played for the Bruins - on some very good teams as I recall. I believe he was on those early 70's Cup winners along with Espo, Orr, Brad Park, Cashman, Cheevers etc. Maybe I am slightly mixing eras there.

Anyway he famously took the money and went to the WHA. Bobby Hull was the biggest name to do that but Sanderson was still a thing.

There were drug/alcohol issue I do believe that came to light later.
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He basically was the Joe Namath of the NHL. He and Gerry Cheevers left the Bruins for the WHA after they won the Stanley Cup in '72. Came back the the NHL after a couple of years but did nothing. I believe Bobby Orr was instrumental in changing his life.

I will have to watch this.
 
reno cool
now those are some uniforms:pope:

just looked up wha, looks like they had a lot of teams coming and going. Denver Spurs? never heard of em.
And winning record against nhl.

bring back wha :woohoo:
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It had to be exhibition. The NHL never took the league serious until the very end when the higher salaries (brought on by the WHA) hurt the NHL.

Edmonton, Quebec (now Colorado), Winnipeg (now Arizona), and Hartford (now Carolina) were originally WHA teams.
 
Speaking of the WHA, there was a Canada/Soviet Summit series involving WHA players in 1974 - 2 years after the famous one where WHA'ers were excluded.

The format was the same, 4 games in Canada then 4 in Russia. The WHA'ers managed 1 win.

Well, 3 ties too. Bobby Hull led the series in scoring with a very Bobby Hull-like 7 goals and 2 assists.
 
Mudcat
Derek Sanderson . . . played for the Bruins - on some very good teams as I recall. I believe he was on those early 70's Cup winners along with Espo, Orr, Brad Park, Cashman, Cheevers etc. Maybe I am slightly mixing eras there.
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Yap. Slight mixing of eras there as Brad Park did not come over from the Rangers until late '75, a few years after those Cups and the WHA defection.
 
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